Marxian idylls

Marx’s own hunting and fishing and criticising version is from The German Ideology (1845–6). For a late nineteenth-century elaboration of the idyll into a full utopia, see William Morris, News from Nowhere; for late twentieth-century Marxian idylls, try Ken Macleod’s The Cassini Division (London: Legend, 1998), and any of Iain M. Banks’s ‘Culture’ novels, especially Look to Windward (London: Orbit, 2000

– Red Plenty